Addis, Ian

The literary heritage of Northamptonshire.

Kettering: Diametric Publications, 2002. First Edition. Softcover. Clean and tightly bound paperback original, no inscriptions, spine uncreased, appears little used. 132 pages, illustrations in the text, bibliography, index. Very Good.

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Book number: 67915

Catalogue: Literature:: English

Keywords: J L Carr BB Watkins-Pitchford Nene valley Northamptonshire

Addison, Joseph & Steele, Richard with Barbauld, Anna Laetitia

Selections from the Spectator, Tatler, Guardian, and Freeholder: with a preliminary essay [volumes 1 and 2 only of a 3 volume set].

J. Johnson, 1804. First Edition. Hardcover. Two clean hardbacks bound in full brown calf, boards are detached but present, loss at backstrip, text blocks are solid, neat name on both front endpapers, no other inscriptions. Volume 1 has selections from the Tatler & Spectator & has xl + 348 pages. Volume 2 has selections from the Spectator & has viii + 346 pages. We do not have volume 3. Will need repairing or rebinding, and priced as such. Poor.

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Book number: 44688

Catalogue: Literature:: English

Keywords: Journalism Anna Laetitia Barbauld Satire Jonathan Swift

Alighieri, Dante

The paradiso.

J. M. Dent and Co, 1903. Reprint. Hardcover. Clean, small format hardback tightly bound in green leather with gilt titles and decoration, spine and edges sunned, leather worn at edges, minor loss at top of spine and splits at spine/boards, endpapers foxed, name and date on front endpaper. 418 pages, frontispiece. Temple Classics series. Fair with no dust jacket.

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Book number: 57796

Catalogue: Literature:: English

Allison, A. F.

Robert Greene 1558 - 1592: a bibliographical catalogue of the early editions in English (to 1640).

Wm. Dawson & Sons, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Very clean & tightly bound hardback book with no inscriptions, in a bright unclipped dustjacket. Appears little used. 76 pages, more than 100 illustrations on a microfiche in a pocket at the rear, chronology, bibliography, index. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket.

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Book number: 56265

Catalogue: Literature:: English

Keywords: English Authors Elizabethan age

Austen, Jane & Chapman, R. W. (ed)

Selected letters 1796 - 1817. World's Classics no. 549.

Oxford University Press, 1955. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Clean hardback tightly bound in blue cloth with gilt titles, spine sunned, cloth has minor rubbing at corners, endpapers tanned, no inscriptions.x + 226 pages, index. Good with no dust jacket.

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Book number: 57973

Catalogue: Literature:: English

Keywords: World's Classics Biography

Bergonzi, Bernard

Heroes' twilight: a study of the literature of the Great War.

Constable & Co. Ltd. 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Very clean & tightly bound hardback book with no inscriptions, in a bright unclipped dustjacket which is rubbed at the corners. 236 pages, notes, chronology, index. Very Good in Good dust jacket.

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Book number: 66233

Catalogue: Literature:: English

Keywords: Poets & poetry Great War Literary Criticism Siegfried Sassoon Wilfred Owen

Bickerstaff, Isaac [Richard Steele]

The Tatler: or the lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, volume IV [4].

H. Lintot, T. Longman et al, 1807. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Smaller format hardback tightly bound in quarter leather over marbled paper, spine label missing, generally worn but presentable, no inscriptions. ii + 309 + 11 pages, index. An odd volume, contains no's 190 to 271 [June 27, 1710 - January 2, 1711]. Good.

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Book number: 58960

Catalogue: Literature:: English

Keywords: Correspondence Jokes & facetiae Periodicals

Booth, M. R.

English plays of the Nineteenth Century, volumes 1 & 2: Drama 1800 -1850 and 1850 - 1900.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Good reading copies, pair of ex library hardback books with the usual stamps and both have had the front endpaper excised, but are otherwise clean and complete, in bright dustjackets which have sticker removal marks at the bases of the spine. Volume 1 has xii + 316 pages with 8 plates, and volume 2 has viii + 428 pages with 9 plates. Heavy books. Fair in Very Good dust jacket.

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Book number: 35376

Catalogue: Literature:: English

Keywords: Plays & playwrights Literary Criticism Playscript Theatrical History

Brewer, Elisabeth

T. H. White's the Once and Future King.

Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Very clean & tightly bound hardback book with no inscriptions, in a bright clipped dustjacket which has been repriced by the publisher. Appears little used. viii + 238 pages, bibliography, index. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket.

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Book number: 68623

Catalogue: Literature:: English

Keywords: Sword in the Stone Literary Criticism Arthurian studies Le Morte Darthur

Brown, Charles Brockden

Arthur Mervyn or memoirs of the year 1793.

U.S.A: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1962. First Edition. Softcover. Clean, tightly bound paperback, card covers rubbed at edges,chip to bottom corner of back cover, no inscriptions. xxviii + 430 pages, bibliography. Good.

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Book number: 63303

Catalogue: Literature:: English

Keywords: Literary Criticism American writers

Browning, Robert & Milford, Sir Humphrey (ed)

Poetry & prose.

Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1941. Reprint. Hardcover. Clean, small format, tightly bound hardback book, endpapers tanned, edges foxed, no inscriptions, in an unclipped dustjacket which is marked and has loss at spine ends and foldovers. xxxii + 204 pages, frontispiece, notes. Fair in Poor dust jacket.

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Book number: 65968

Catalogue: Literature:: English

Keywords: English Literature Poems Romantic poetry

Carpenter, Humphrey

The angry young men: a literary comedy of the 1950s.

Allen Lane, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Very clean & tightly bound hardback book with no inscriptions, in a bright unclipped dustjacket which is rubbed at the edges. xii + 244 pages, photos on plates bibliography, notes, index. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket.

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Book number: 61584

Catalogue: Literature:: English

Keywords: English Literature Playwright John Osborne Doris Lessing

Chancellor, E. Beresford

Essays and studies: literary and historical.

Bemrose & Sons, 1891. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean hardback tightly bound in blue cloth with gilt titles, bevelled boards, top edge gilt, cloth rubbed at corners, no inscriptions. [x] + 236 pages, tissue-guarded frontispiece and 4 illustrations on plates by Val Prince. Very Good with no dust jacket.

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Book number: 40400

Catalogue: Literature:: English

Keywords: William Wordsworth Samuel Taylor Coleridge Goethe French Revolution

Charlton, James M. (ed.)

Modern essays.

Blackie, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Very clean hardback tightly bound in red cloth with gilt titles, spine faded else unmarked, no inscriptions. x + 182 pages, notes. School text book - the authors include Benson, Belloc, Chesterton, Huxley, Wodehouse et al.. Very Good with no dust jacket.

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Book number: 64129

Catalogue: Literature:: English

Keywords: P. G. Wodehouse J. B. Priestley Hilaire Belloc Short stories

Chaucer, Geoffrey: Spenser, Edmund; Purves, D. Laing (ed)

The Canterbury Tales And Faerie Queene.

Edinburgh: William P. Nimmo, 1870. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Clean hardback tightly bound in green cloth with gilt titles and decoration, cloth has short splits at spine and front board, page edges foxed, bookplate on front endpaper, contents and preface pages detached but present. viii + 624 pages + 24 pages of publisher's adverts, frontispiece with tissue guard. Fair.

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Book number: 68942

Catalogue: Literature:: English

Keywords: English Literature